Wednesday 4 April 2007
about
Atlas / @las
international paperback magazine of new writing, art & image
editor
Sudeep Sen
board of contributing editors
Peter Bradshaw, Kwame Dawes, John F Deane, Donald Hall,
Girish Karnad, Christopher Merrill, Les Murray, Naomi Shihab Nye,
Ruth Padel, Peter Porter, Fiona Sampson, Shashi Tharoor,
Daniel Weissbort, John Hartley Williams
senior copy editor Chris Brown editorial assistant Madeline Haas
Atlas — an international paperback magazine of ‘new writing, art & image’ — is published by Aark Arts [UK] & Crossword [India], and advised by an impressive panel of internationally acclaimed prize-winning writers & editors. Available simultaneously from New Delhi, Mumbai, London, Leeds, Toronto, Cambridge & San Antonio, it was launched in the UK/India in the summer/monsoon of 2006. Apart from carrying cutting-edge original and translated creative writing — poetry, drama, fiction & non-fiction, plus occasional in-depth interviews & features — it also includes selected portfolios of artists, photographers & filmmakers.
Atlas has several publishing partners/patrons, both formal & informal — and discussions are in progress with many others — including: The British High Commission / British Council, Embassy of Finland, The Canadian High Commission, ProHelvetia / Swiss Embassy, Slovenian Embassy, India International Centre, The Inlaks Foundation, Peepal Tree Books (UK), Wings Press (USA), The Attic, Gallerie International, Katha, Srishti, Star Publications, Green Thums, Radnik, & others.
Inaugural issues contain — poetry by Meena Alexander, Patience Agbabi, Agyeya, Kaifi Azmi, Bengt Berg, Charles Bernstein, Nicole Brossard, Amit Chaudhuri, Dilip Chitre, Rana Dasgupta, Keki Daruwalla, Kwame Dawes, Imtiaz Dharker, John F Deane, Tishani Doshi, Tarek Eltayeb, Zhang Er, Anjum Hasan, Mimi Khalvati, Jyrki Kiishinen, John Kinsella, Arun Kolatkar, Herbert Lomas, Jayanta Mahapatra, Leeya Mehta, Hoshang Merchant, Christopher Merrill, Bryce Milligan, Kim Morrissey, Les Murray, Amir Or, Saleem Peeradina, Peter Porter, Richard Price, Jerry Pinto, R Raj Rao, Shamsur Rahman, Tomaz Salamun, Fiona Sampson, Ravi Shankar, Arundhathi Subramaniam, Leonard Schwartz, Matthew Sweeney, Rabindranath Tagore, Anand Thakore, Cai Tianxin, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Reetika Vazirani, Stephen Watts, Daniel Weissbort, John Welch, John Hartley Williams, Neshe Yashin; fiction & non-fiction by Tom Alter, Peter Bradshaw, Priya Sarukkai Chabria, Amal Chatterjee, Scott Haas, Peggy Herring, Tabish Khair, Charles R Larson, Suketu Mehta, Elie Moser, Sharmistha Mohanty, Tim Parks, Salman Rushdie, Owen Sheers, Tsur Shezaf, C P Surendran; photography by Rafeeq Ellias, Viraj Singh, Bijoy Chowdhury, Bandeep Singh; art by Abdus Shakoor, Jatin Das, Imtiaz Dharaker, Saleem Peeradina; interviews with Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth — writers/artists ranging from countries such as America, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Canada, China, England, Finland, Germany, Ghana, India, Iran, Israel, Jamaica, Korea, Scotland, Slovenia, Sudan, Sweden, Turkey & Wales.
As part of Atlas’s long-term publishing plan to present high quality work from both established and new writers & artists on the same platform, a substantial part of each issue will also focus on a specific country or region. The ‘focus’ issues will be co-edited by specially appointed guest editors/writers from the respective country/region, with the editor & the board of contributing editors serving as advisors. Special call for submission now open for the ‘Finnish’ issue, ‘Canada’ issue, ‘British’ issue, ‘America’ issue, ‘Australia’ issue, ‘Israel’ issue, ‘Slovenia’ issue, and ‘Afro-Caribbean’ issue. Atlas primarily publishes solicited/commissioned works, however it welcomes quality unsolicited submissions. Contributors are invited to be part of the ‘Aark Arts International Literary Reading Series’.
queries & submissions
Contact Ms Haas at: atlasaarkarts@gmail.com
international paperback magazine of new writing, art & image
editor
Sudeep Sen
board of contributing editors
Peter Bradshaw, Kwame Dawes, John F Deane, Donald Hall,
Girish Karnad, Christopher Merrill, Les Murray, Naomi Shihab Nye,
Ruth Padel, Peter Porter, Fiona Sampson, Shashi Tharoor,
Daniel Weissbort, John Hartley Williams
senior copy editor Chris Brown editorial assistant Madeline Haas
Atlas — an international paperback magazine of ‘new writing, art & image’ — is published by Aark Arts [UK] & Crossword [India], and advised by an impressive panel of internationally acclaimed prize-winning writers & editors. Available simultaneously from New Delhi, Mumbai, London, Leeds, Toronto, Cambridge & San Antonio, it was launched in the UK/India in the summer/monsoon of 2006. Apart from carrying cutting-edge original and translated creative writing — poetry, drama, fiction & non-fiction, plus occasional in-depth interviews & features — it also includes selected portfolios of artists, photographers & filmmakers.
Atlas has several publishing partners/patrons, both formal & informal — and discussions are in progress with many others — including: The British High Commission / British Council, Embassy of Finland, The Canadian High Commission, ProHelvetia / Swiss Embassy, Slovenian Embassy, India International Centre, The Inlaks Foundation, Peepal Tree Books (UK), Wings Press (USA), The Attic, Gallerie International, Katha, Srishti, Star Publications, Green Thums, Radnik, & others.
Inaugural issues contain — poetry by Meena Alexander, Patience Agbabi, Agyeya, Kaifi Azmi, Bengt Berg, Charles Bernstein, Nicole Brossard, Amit Chaudhuri, Dilip Chitre, Rana Dasgupta, Keki Daruwalla, Kwame Dawes, Imtiaz Dharker, John F Deane, Tishani Doshi, Tarek Eltayeb, Zhang Er, Anjum Hasan, Mimi Khalvati, Jyrki Kiishinen, John Kinsella, Arun Kolatkar, Herbert Lomas, Jayanta Mahapatra, Leeya Mehta, Hoshang Merchant, Christopher Merrill, Bryce Milligan, Kim Morrissey, Les Murray, Amir Or, Saleem Peeradina, Peter Porter, Richard Price, Jerry Pinto, R Raj Rao, Shamsur Rahman, Tomaz Salamun, Fiona Sampson, Ravi Shankar, Arundhathi Subramaniam, Leonard Schwartz, Matthew Sweeney, Rabindranath Tagore, Anand Thakore, Cai Tianxin, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Reetika Vazirani, Stephen Watts, Daniel Weissbort, John Welch, John Hartley Williams, Neshe Yashin; fiction & non-fiction by Tom Alter, Peter Bradshaw, Priya Sarukkai Chabria, Amal Chatterjee, Scott Haas, Peggy Herring, Tabish Khair, Charles R Larson, Suketu Mehta, Elie Moser, Sharmistha Mohanty, Tim Parks, Salman Rushdie, Owen Sheers, Tsur Shezaf, C P Surendran; photography by Rafeeq Ellias, Viraj Singh, Bijoy Chowdhury, Bandeep Singh; art by Abdus Shakoor, Jatin Das, Imtiaz Dharaker, Saleem Peeradina; interviews with Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth — writers/artists ranging from countries such as America, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Canada, China, England, Finland, Germany, Ghana, India, Iran, Israel, Jamaica, Korea, Scotland, Slovenia, Sudan, Sweden, Turkey & Wales.
As part of Atlas’s long-term publishing plan to present high quality work from both established and new writers & artists on the same platform, a substantial part of each issue will also focus on a specific country or region. The ‘focus’ issues will be co-edited by specially appointed guest editors/writers from the respective country/region, with the editor & the board of contributing editors serving as advisors. Special call for submission now open for the ‘Finnish’ issue, ‘Canada’ issue, ‘British’ issue, ‘America’ issue, ‘Australia’ issue, ‘Israel’ issue, ‘Slovenia’ issue, and ‘Afro-Caribbean’ issue. Atlas primarily publishes solicited/commissioned works, however it welcomes quality unsolicited submissions. Contributors are invited to be part of the ‘Aark Arts International Literary Reading Series’.
queries & submissions
Contact Ms Haas at: atlasaarkarts@gmail.com
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